The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-08
sENEnAL NEWS NoTGs.
Items Of Iptersst Gathered from various
Quarters.

Venice is slowly sinking into the sel
Judge Francis T. Anderson of Lexiug.
| ton, Va, is dead.
A carload of cotton was burned at Pros
perity yesterday.
No 78 Broadway, New York city, was
burned last night Loss $b0, 900.
For the month Of November the Govern.
ment paid out over $18,000,000 on pen
sions.
| The revenues of the Government from
oil sources during the month of November
amounted to about $50, 100000.
The Anarchists have been presented with
q handsome cemetery lot in Chicago for the
| burial of the men who were hanged.
The Grand Lodge of South Carolina
| Free MasOns will hold their annual confer
| ence in Charleston on December IS and ID
A dispatch from London announces that
| MIR. Sheehy, M. p, has been arrested and
is now in Sligo prison.
A number of members of the Chamber
| OF Deputies yesterday requested President
Grevy not to resign.
A farmer named lrby yesterday shot and
killed two colored men who attacked him
on his farm In Marlboro county.
M. Gaunt, a wealthy colorcd resident of
Xenia, o., has decided his PROPERTY, valued
at $3O.OcO, to Wherefore University.
Mr.. E. NJ. Moreland yesterday bought
in Charleston $3.50, 900 in Confederate bills
at twenty-five cents per thousand.
Mrs. Mary j. Robertson, for over thirty
years president of the Calhoun Monument
Association in Charleston, died yesterday
During the present intense cold in the
Northwest steam heating of railroad trains
has been practiccd with entire success.
w. r. Fuller, State Auditor of Arkan-
sas, died yesterday. He was twice elected
| Governor.
An explosion of choke damp occurred
yesterday in a colliery in Poremba, Silesa
| killing thirteen miners and wounding many
| others.
A London dispatch says that Sullivan
and Mitchell were matched last night to
fight to the finish, with bare knuckles, for
e5U0 a side.
Ex-Governor st. John of Kansas SAYS
that the Prohibition party is the only one
that Is increasing in numbers. He will not
be candidate for the Presidency on any
terms.
John II. Parker, foreman Of the planning
mill at Darbys mills, in Palatl1a, Fla, was
| caught In the shafting yesterday afternoon
and was killed before the engine could be
stopped.
DR.. Telschow, court dentist, has been
summoned to San Reno to operate On the
Grown Princes teeth. This would seem
to indicate that the Princes condition has
improved.
The building of the Strobridge Lilho
graphing Company in Cincinnati was de
stroyed by fire yesterday morning. Loss
estimated at half million: insured for
$l50,000.
Michael O'Bricn, tramp, who brutally
| outraged Miss McGregOr in Alamosa, Col
recently, was taken from Jail Wednesday
night by citizens and hanged. The rccov-
cry of the girl is doubtful.
Dan Swygert purchased yesterday from
| Dwycr Brothers the great colt Trcmcnt for
$25, 900, this being the largest sum ever
| PAID In this country for q home bred thor.
oughbrcd for stud purposes.
| a thirteen year old colorcd boy ATTEMPTED
| yesterday to board freight train at At
| lanta and steal n ride to Chattanooga. lie
| fell, and his left foot was SO badly crushed
as 10 necessltntc amputation.
a news vcndcr at Killarney has been sen
| fenced TO months Imprisonment for sell
ing copies Of United Helund containing re-
| ports of meetings of suppressed branches
of the National League.
The Car has committed to DEGRADATION
young officers who were convicted of en-
gaglng in revolutionary conspiracy and
sentenced to exile in Siberia.
Henry Overstaltz, president of the inso
| vent Fifth National Bank of st. Louis, and
! eX Mayor of that city, died yesterday of
heart disease. He did not know that the
| bank had suspended.
| The surveying party, which under direc,
| tlon or the Nicaragua Canal Construction
| Company will make the final surveys
| sailed on the steamer Hondo from New
| York yesterday. The survey will not be
completed until April or May
The commanders of the different army
| corps in France have received sealed in
structions which they arc to open in the
| event of an outbreak following the election
Of q new President.
President Cleveland has made $4,000
by the increase in value of "Red TOP. the
| country place he bought near Washington
Secretary Whitney is reported to have done
better, by realizing $4,000 profit by the
| sale OF land he bought in the vicinity.
a shock of earthquake was felt at Choir
ley, county of Lancaster, England, at r
O'Clock yesterday morning A rumblin~
noise accompanied the shock Buildings
shook and people ran out of their houses.
No serious damage was done
The corporation of Dublin unanimously
elected Mr.. Sexton Lord Mayor Yesterday
to succeed Mr.. Sullivan. In speech he
said that every day developed new attacks
upon the lives and liberties of the Irish
people.
Maria Steel, a negro woman, died in Sa.
Vannah yesterday, after having reached The
remarkable age of 115 years She was
born in Rockingham county, North Caro-.
lima, in 1772. She leaves two children,
who are now very old men.
Intense excitement prevailed In France
yesterday Some of President Crews bit |
tcrest foes of two weeks ago now bcsccch |
him to withhold his contemplated rcsigna |
tion The President decided to make no |
communication to the Chamber of Dcpu |
ties. PN
Doc Wilson, an employc of the South
Carolina Railroad, met with painful iniu. |
Iries yesterday at the freight yard in Ham. |
burg. While coupling cars his right hand |
was caught between the bumpers and badly
mashed, his thumb being crushed to Jelly. |
A Greenvillc special to the Ncacs and
courier says an inquest was held Yesterday |